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Authored by: Wol on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 07:05 AM EDT

Yup. In this area you have lots of little principalities which have *partially*
consolidated into larger political units.

Until the great nation building of the 1800s, the only countries in Europe of
any size were France and Spain, along with the Ottoman Empire.

Germany and Italy were loose associations of Principalities, and it wasn't until
Garibaldi and Bismarck that they came into existance.

So we have Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. I think, as the Grand Duchy,
Luxembourg is the only one of the three to be just one Principality - the others
are made up of several (or bits of several) Principalities. Flanders is
half-french, half belgian. Holland is one of five making up the Netherlands. And
roughly half of Belgium speaks Dutch as its native language. A right royal mix
up :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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